Lost my Notes within Calendar Events

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Lost my Notes within Calendar Events

After installing Yosemite, all of the notes within my Calendar events are gone. The individual calendars and all the past and future events are there, just not the notes that I've typed in. They're gone from my Calendar application, gone from my phone, and gone from iCloud web site. Gone, gone, gone. I have a repeating event named "Daily Notes 2014" that repeats each day for the entire year, and I enter text each day in the notes field as a poor-man's journal. Many years of data wiped out. Strangely, some random events did retain their notes, and it's "only" the daily journal entries that are affected. So it may have something to do with it being a repeating event, where individual instances get split off when they are altered and you save for "only this occurrence".

I do have a clone backup of my hard drive made just before I updated to Yosemite, so I know that I can export and restore Calendar info. BUT: As a test I entered some fresh text into one of those daily entries last night, and this morning that text has also disappeared. So what good will it do to restore everything if it just evaporates within a day?

Any suggestions?

Other OS, Yosemite 10.10 500 GB SSD

Posted on Oct 20, 2014 6:55 AM

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Answer 1

CSinLA

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Nov 17, 2014 8:28 AM in response to Mike Schwartz

I have the same issue. It's on a MacBook Pro, upgraded to Yosemite from Mavericks. However, I wasn't able to recover the Calendar items' notes because I'm not sure what files to recover. Regardless, it would be pointless because now new Calendar notes are missing. Any help would be appreciated.

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Answer 2

Nov 17, 2014 8:19 PM in response to CSinLA

The file structure for Calendar is way too complex, and most file/folder names are just long hex strings. There's probably no good way to cherry-pick files to restore. You might try restoring the entire ~/Library/Calendars folder (after suitably backing up your current version). In the past I've had other problems with mega repeating events, with Spotlight not indexing the notes. I concluded that my 365-day repeating event "Daily Notes 2014" was corrupted, and I wrote it off and deleted it.

Instead, I just create a new simple one-day event each day, and add my notes. I have had no problem with that approach -- the new notes are retained and sync just fine between laptop, iPhone, and iCloud.com. Hope that helps.

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